Radar Assessment and Development Laboratory
Riverside Research’s Boston-based Electronic Systems Directorate, home of the RAD Lab, has been providing radar engineering support to government and industry customers for over 30 years. Evolving from the standard Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA)–type support of the 80s and 90s, our laboratory has matured into a dynamic, pro-active technical force capable of evaluating the most complicated, state-of-the-art sensors. Our two-fold mission is to:
- provide independent, objective assessment of the capabilities and limitations of high-fidelity radar sensors; and
- mechanize and deploy internally developed tools to promote self-assessment in the field.
Whether your radar is still on the drawing board or has been fielded for decades, RAD Lab can provide a diverse set of critical functions to ensure mission success:
- Performance analysis and monitoring
- Collection assessment
- Assessment tool development
- Sustainment forecasting
- Modernization studies
- Analysis of alternatives (AoA)
- Independent verification and validation (IV&V)
- Simulation verification, validation, and accreditation (VV&A)
- Radar system engineering
- Algorithm and display prototyping
- Software engineering
- Operations and analysis training
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) acquisition support
- Pre-flight mission analysis
- Post-flight reconstruction
- Scenario development and validation
RAD Lab is staffed with highly qualified engineers who have guided numerous high-end radars from design to operation and are poised to solve the most challenging engineering problems:
- Senior staff are industry recognized radar SMEs.
- In-house expertise includes solid-state phased-array radar systems, wideband signal processing, radar imaging, multi-state track filters, mission planning, 6-DOF digital and analog simulation, mobile and stationary platforms, and space-situational Awareness.
- A diverse, cross-trained staff facilitates short-term and long-term task-based contracts.
RADLab's Performance Health and Analysis Radar Operations Suite (PHAROS) provides the analysis capability necessary to break down complex radar. Developed in Matlab, Java, and C/C++, PHAROS provides the following:
- Performance monitoring and collection assessment for multiple radar systems (currently supported systems include Cobra Dane, Cobra Judy, Cobra Judy Replacement (CJR), Gray Star, and Have Stare
- A single intuitive human/machine interface for all sensors
- Expandable support for new sensors
- Customizable feature sets to support field deployment
- Recorded sensor data converted into open source format HDF5
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